I straight had started a real gang with same name. This was when L..A. Cali gangs were out and it way spread',n to other cities. I remember when crips and Blood not in st.louiz.. I was serious about my gang to join you had to do a bunch of physical &mental test. To prove yourself. I never understood how getting your ass whoped how that's show'n love & prove you tough getting jumped.
The thing that always hooked me emotionally about the film was these kids made a difference. Many of them die. The scene at the end of the film where Jed and Matt are mortally wounded, Jed carries Matt to the park where their father took them to as children so they can die there. I'll always remember that and how touching it still is. It was a suicide mission and both brothers knew it, but they had each other. Great film.
I've always thought that Matt was already dead, and that Jed was dying. The thing that always gets me is the Cuban Officer writing the letter home to his wife telling her that he was tired of war, then giving Jed the pass as he carries Matt away from the fight. 30 years ago, "Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon" was a thing. I always thought that was too easy, and decided to start tying actors to John Wayne, through the movies that he starred in. "Red Dawn" had Ben Johnson in it, and he had been in several John Wayne films, "Rio Grande", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", & "The Train Robbers" being 3 of them.
@@earlwyss520 You can see where Matt stops breathing. A friend pointed that out to me and I have never forgot it. I'm 51 now and have never forgot it. On a lighter note. In the beginning of the film after they get away and are in the mountains around the camp fire and Patrick is yelling at everybody that its the end of the world. In this video its clip 1:43. He tries 3 times to get his hands in his pockets, but since (in real life too) the jackets are SO brand new he cannot.
For me, the scene with the dad was the most impactful. He explains that he was hard on them, made them learn survival skills, probably whipped their asses when they needed it. He did it all so they could survive. As an 80's kid, I imagined my Grandfather who was a ww2 veteran - behind that fence, telling me to avenge him. Thats powerful stuff boys and girls...
I always remember the line where he says sometimes I did things that made you hate me. I thought about that as I was growing up and realizing parents do things we sometimes don't understand, but it is because they love us and want us to be decent human beings and to be able to handle yourself.
Grew up in Greeley. I always thought the film depicted Lyons. Could've been any little town between Boulder and Ft C. Now the guy says none of it filmed in CO? Letdown.
@@stephenbradley402 Grew up in Boulder. I would have SWORN some of it was filmed in Sedalia Colorado and Garden Of The Gods in Colorado Springs. Of course it was years later I learned where it was filmed.
"In the early days of World War III, guerrillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock. They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so "that this nation shall not perish from the earth."
Still tears me up to this day, even for a movie that is not real. Sadly, in too many wars children are forced to fight to survive and that is why the film is important.
As an Airman specializing in Missile Security at a SAC base in the upper Midwest, I saw this movie the same day it was released. I'll always remember how the entire theater gasped when Lt.Col. Tanner remarked on how "...they took out the silos here in the Dakotas..."😲
I was a high school student, and an AF brat who moved from EAFB SD to ZAB Germany in 1984. I later served as a USAF Security Policeman (Security Specialist) and can confirm the Minuteman silos' vulnerability to sappers. After several years working Aircraft Security in PacAF, SAC, & USAFE, then working Missile Security at MAFB ND & SC, the vulnerabilities of the system were blatantly obvious to me.
@@jimbutke655 You don't need codes to take them out, just enough HE & very large shaped charges (based on 55 gallon drums) aimed at the joint in the blast door.
@@jimbutke655 Who said anything about dropping them, they could have easily driven across the southern border with the explosives, plus ANFRO was easier to get before Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal Bldg in OK city. They also never thought about shaped charges aimed at the joint in the blast door. Having worked both Aircraft, & ICBM security for a decade, I realized that you could fill the Encyclopedia Britannica with all of the things that the "Experts" didn't think about. Oh, about them being built to withstand a nuke, a Combat Crew Member told me that was with 1960s era weapons, by 1995 when I served with the 741st MS at Minot AFB ND, the current generation of weapons would decimate the force.
@@earlwyss520 That is assuming they do not have equally advanced modern protective measures today as former employees of Raytheon and Lockheed have implied.
THIS was the movie that defined my childhood. I watched it countless times. I would defend it to the death against anyone that called it a frivolous action movie. The characters had depth and the consequences were real. This was no unkillable Rambo. Key players in this story lost their lives.
Hey Todd how about this in the first Avengers movie when the Hulk falls from the Air Carrier and crashes to the earth Harry Deam Stanton asks are you an Alien!!! He was in Alien in 1979!!!!
@Peter Michalski Soviets were respectful and polite people. It's not like they committed near-genocide on the Indian tribe which is worse than what the Nazis did. Bottomline, I hate this type of Hollywood flicks. Wrongfully portraying US enemies in movies. The real US: Racism, violence, drugs, warmongers, bullies, rapists, I'm glad my country kicked out your bases. So many wrongdoing done on my people.
Interesting to note that Patrick Swayze so loved the area that he bought a ranch near the shooting area where he raised Arabian horses for many years. His wife still has the ranch high in Gallinas canyon. A good friend of mine is the caretaker there.
This is an underrated classic. The producers smartly cast excellent "bad guy" actor William Smith as a Russian officer, but then also added Ron O'Neal as a Hispanic/Cuban officer. The anti-war message comes through in how the Ron O'Neal character spares the Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen characters, which is the second-most powerful scene after "Avenge Me."
John Milius is a Man's Man ! As the director of Red Dawn, Conan, and Farewell To The King, he infuses the stories with the will to survive in unbelievably brutal conditions. A code of honor and loyalty to those who fight alongside you is in evidence throughout his films. These "Kids" have no choice but to grow up fast and find courage they never knew they possessed. What's deeply moving is the scene at the Drive-In where the two boys see their Father, bruised and beaten, but still on his feet. "Avenge Me" he yells out as they flee back into the hills. It gave me chills watching it for the first time, but can you imagine having that happen to your family. It made me proud when they took the fight to the enemy.
Milius and Red Dawn are often called jingoistic... but I believe Millius' own comments about the film show something deeper, perhaps cynicism... after all their heroics- all that's left are the kids names are painted on a rock, under a plaque that nobody visits.
Could be. Most monuments are visited by the people who lived at the time of the conflict, and when they die out ..., who is there to remember the sacrifices those who died made. But isn't that also true of Arlington cemetery or the graves in France honoring the men who died on the beaches of Normandy ? Is that cynical ? Are we that shallow as a people ? Maybe so. Look around at what we've become. Heads buried in our phones, even at traffic lights. Caught up in "What's Trending". How pathetic is that ?
If only the Colonel warned Robert that you can't take on an Mi-24 Hind with an AK-47, no matter how much you hate it and no matter how loud you yell "Wolverines!".
Interesting item: in the Army, in the 80s, we watched this as a part of training....because the mock ups were so good we were quized on vehicle ID! They were that good.
The tanks had the wrong running gear. They used M48 Patton tanks as the base vehicle. Soviet T-72 & T-80 tanks have bigger bogies, and no return idlers. The BTR-60 looks good, except for the MG3 sticking out of the turret. The Anti-Tank cannons on the flatbed they hide behind were US and British, then there is the VTOL attempting Mig-27 LTC Andy tosses a grenade into....
I read recently that someone in Ukraine must have watched Red Dawn because they spraypainted "Wolverines!" on the side of a burned out wreck of a Russian tank. Way to go! I give it a ten for irony and another ten for style. 🇺🇦 To my Brothers & Sisters there, I'm praying for you.
The Ukrainian special forces already call themselves Wolverines and Wolves dating back to Bandera's and prior Sich Ukrainian Rifle battalions from the 1920s as a form of 'Ukrainian militaristic ultranationalism.' It has nothing to do with this, and if it did - then I assume it would be because of western volunteers.
I met Lea some time ago in NC at the Mad Monster Party Convention. What a total sweetheart she was. When I asked her to sign my Red Dawn Poster she was like “ Oh my gosh, how old could You have been when this came out?” She told me that they all had to do the eight weeks of basic training and she loved it. Patrick was the driving force for all of them to stay on pace and was the motivator already taking the lead character. She was really laughing and happy to hear that the movie inspired all the eight year olds in my neighborhood to take to the woods yelling “Wolverines” while playing Red Dawn.
did any body else go to the army surplus store and stock up! I did, my neighbor thought we where in a gang.we dug foxholes,read military manuals and talked to Vietnam vets for the nitty gritty. they loved have a bunch of snot nosed punks that wanted to hear what they went thru...good times. now we would have gotten sensitivity training and cultural re-education....wait a minuet???
Not exactly.If you observe their lack of camouflage and noise discipline,you'd wonder how they survived even escaping the initial invasion. Remember,if you are fighting guerrilla war,YOU are prey and had better think before you act.
Funny story: Even though I was very much alive when this movie hit theaters, I did not actually see the movie until 2004... 20 years after its' first release! A whole bunch of reasons for this epic delay, most of them having to do with the fact that I was a little kid (barely 5 years old) when this movie hit theaters, and there was simply no way my family was taking me to see such a film. After that, I guess you could say I just... forgot about it. Because the 80's, for me, was chock full of "Back to the Future," "Terminator," "Predator," "Star Wars," "Star Trek," and about a dozen other pretty good films that just appealed to my childhood. "Red Dawn," for as amazing as it was, just kind of got... buried under the avalanche of awesome that the 80's was, in terms of movies! Throughout my teenage/young adult years in the 90's, I was always aware that it existed, but never had the urge to rent it, and see it for myself. It looked cheesy, like one of those dumb 80's action flicks that the decade is famous for. So I stayed away from it, and was never recommended by anybody that I go watch it. Also, the 90's was pretty chock full of awesome films too. I continued to forget "Red Dawn" even existed. I saw it in 2004, when I was in the Navy. I was on board an Aircraft Carrier, while we were docked at a port, and I was otherwise on watch. I literally had nothing to do but watch the bloody film! I was not thrilled at the prospect, but hey... better than just staring at a blank bulkhead for eight hours... I only saw like half the film, but what I saw actually SURPRISED ME! It was riveting. It was engrossing. It was tense. And I loved the quasi-real special effects and props that the film boasted (such a difference from movies today). The next time I watched it, about two months later, when I finally came back to the United States after my deployment, I made it a point to watch the entire movie with some of my squadron-mates. I watched it all the way through... and to this day, it's STILL one of the greatest war movies I've ever watched! I've been a fan since 2004. And I'm not sorry at all about that, because it's an awesome movie that I really wish I had gotten around to seeing earlier than I did!
I was a High School Sophomore & USAF brat when it came out, but missed it in the theaters, because dad was reasigned to Germany. I saw it on VHS about a year later.
The Red Dawn movies can perfectly show the difference in the expectation of todays movie-goers and the mid-1980's movie-goers. Red Dawn 84 is a movie about hardship, struggles, and sacrifice. It's made to be as realistic as possible, it's not flashy or over-the-top. Red Dawn 2012 is a movie where the action is completely unrealistic. There's no emotion and no human struggle. It's all about the flash and the visuals and has no depth or substance at all.
I saw both movies and I have to disagree about the remake not having human struggle as they did showcase plenty of that and the main character loses his entire family with his dad first and his big brother latter and many of his friends as well. Its the ending that they botched things up. Instead of showing a more realistic and in tone with the movie's pacing up until that point they instead end in what can only be described as a propaganda video. But thats the world we sadly live in nowadays where is all about the worship of the state and it's symbols and of course corporatist backed consumerism.
@@RoyCyberPunk Ironically, the remake was originally supposed to be about a Red Chinese invasion, but, China owns so much of Hollywood that the film makers were pressured into changing it to a totally unrealistic North Korea invasion scenario. Then, again, considering how Red China seems increasingly "communist" in name only as they are pretty much openly embracing the Free Market any more, perhaps it's just as well.
@@RoyCyberPunk The movie was crap. It was the movie equivalent of an orgy. No substance, just fucking around. Having served I can tell you right now, most Marines can't even get a claymore in the right direction.... and it says FRONT TWARD ENEMY on the thing. The idea that you enlist in the lowest funded branch of the NAVY and become a master Gorilla fighter is more fake than North Korea affording the fucking fuel to deliver it's military to the USA. It was a Gen M "give ME" movie, like shaking keys in front of a baby.
I agree for the most part. However, I believe it also shows the difference between the generation that would have taken part in the original film and the present generation. The Wolverines who faced the occupying force in the second film were in no way the same quality as those who faced the Soviets in the original film.
Some of the extras that were Russian soldiers came from the Air Force Security Police Squadron at Kirtland AFB NM. Many of the Russian weapon props were still on display in the unit's training room when I arrived there in 1992.
When the dad is saying his last goodbye's, it made me cry hard as a kid. I still tear up even today, maybe it's because my dad wasn't around, not sure. But I love Jed reminds me of my older bro. Great review minty.
I work at the Copper Star Indoor Shooting Range, which has several full autos that can be rented by customers and then fired on our range with a Range Safety Officer. One of our choices is the actual M78 Valmet rifle that was used by Swayze in the movie. The Valmet was used in place of an RPK for the same reason as they couldn't use real Russian tanks for filming. As far as I know it was one of the gew guns that weren't just inoperable props. Just remember if you want to go "Swayze Crazy" while yelling "Wolverines!", come see us at Copper Star Indoor Shooting Range in Camp Verde, Arizona.
I think there was only 1 or 2 redeeming scenes in the whole movie. Don't ask me which ones because the movie was so forgettable but when watching it, I thought "that one wasn't bad". I think it was when they mounted a .50 cal in the back of a mustang.
Even IF they used the initial Plot {PRC invades the US. The PRC got upset and they switched to DPRK - who can't deliver troops to the US in order to fulfill the Invasion quotas. But PRC would be the aggressor. Never saw the new remake. Hope I die saying that! PG-13 first. Violent & GBWR! New these as I knew and still know EVERY word in this film (English, Spanish and Russia. Whilst a kid, I had no idea what was said/fully appreciated what it meant. Best and Fav all time film.
The worst crime comited was the change of the enemy country from China to North Korea. Without that it would have actually been interesting to watch (and a lot more realistic too). But no, it just became an even worse piece of propaganda.
I watched this as an 8yo back in the mid 1980s. I would literally pray the Russians would invade while I was at school so I could run to my local gun store and loot it, then run into the hills to wage a guerrilla war against the big red threat.
I did the same thing and if I'm being completely honest I still find my self staring out my office window towards the mountains quietly hopping to see those paratroopers and the start of the invasion! I'm sure war is absolute he'll ! But between babysitting my idiot employees at work my loud unappreciative wife spending my money on new clothes to go with her new diet that won't take a pound off her ever growing ass and the realization I'm trapped with this wilds beast and are 3 lazy probably border line retarded kids and these clowns at my office I can honestly say the thought of being ran through by a AK47's bayonet would be a welcome escape from nagging!
@@treverschafer5074I feel your pain. It sounds like you should get a divorce, change your job, maybe even move to a new place. Living near the ocean may have a more calming effect. By the way, I like this movie too.
I love Red Dawn. The characters all have a different response to whats happened. A couple of them are scared & want to give up, another becomes thirsty for revenge, the girls want to fight back & the brothers see no other way but to fight. It is a great look and the term ‘what if’ is perfect for this.
In the 80’s my brother and I loved to watch this, then paint our faces and go outside in the night with our play-guns and battle the neighborhood kids. SO MANY good memories. Nostalgia is such an understatement.
This movie makes some serious points. One: There is a scene where a Russian officer orders one his troops to look in the city hall flles for documents with a specific number. "What is that?" he asks. The officer answers, "Those are gun registrations." So, an invading army would automatically have an advantage; something anti-gun people never consider. //. War turns even young people into hardened fighters who abandon all sense of humanity //. At the end, you see it on the looks of everyone's face on both sides of the conflict--war is disgusting and to be avoided at all costs. //. Red Dawn has a very patriotic overtone, which infuriated many in the liberal press and Hollywood. In one scene, as the previously mentioned gun-owners are rounded up and then lined up to be shot, one of the starts singing, "American the Beautiful," just seconds before they are all mowed down.
Michael Wolfe total projection. The Obamas, Clintons and the rest of the DNC have their fingerprints all over Russia and Putin. The same crowd hates the Constitution, individual liberty and assaults any person, group or institution that doesn’t bow down to it. Only true believers and the willingly ignorant fail to see the progressive movement has been waging a fight with liberty for over a 100 years.
Interesting. I made no comment about political parties or the current administration or anything. I only brought up true statements about the movie and actual Hollywood history (I remember the reviews). The comment about "bllaming everyone and taking no responsibility..." cracked me up. Was Moxley supposed to take responsibility for something; ro me? For what? Trump hatred truly is everywhere. Even in the comments about a 35 year old movie. btw, will someone please explain what Trump's motivation would be to join with a communist when he is one of the greatest beneficiaries of capitalism, democracy and the free market--things all despised by Communism. You can say "Putin, Putin, Putin" all day long. It's like endless cursing--after awhile, it has no meaning and no effect, it's just noise.
@@ronricherson6685 Only person that brings up Putin, is trump..Fact! You are suggesting certain labels have to match up and stay in bubbles, which I'm sure you know does not actually happen. It all about the green and power in the end, who owns and owes who. You think trump joined Putin and I say Putin OWNS trump..bigly difference
@@craiga2002 There are two quotes of Yamamoto that made him look like a prophet. "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The other is: "In the first six months of a war with the United States and Great Britain, I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." He nailed the second quote almost to the day when 5 minutes of pure luck at Midway turned the tide of the war for the allies in the Pacific. That first quote was dealt to Japan in spades with the victory at Midway.
"It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone. The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache. It’s twelve o’clock, American, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song.”
This scene in Red Dawn was copied from a scene in the movie The Longest Day, in which French Resistance fighters are listening to the radio and hearing the various code phrases being broadcasted. It's been a while since I've seen The Longest Day, but I think they even use the exact same phrases in both movies.
I remember hearing when the Dirty Dancing came out that Patrick and Grey still had issues, but it showed their professionalism as it didn't show in the film
Red Dawn is awesome. I think the chemistry of the cast is what makes it such a great film. The remake didn't have that chemistry so it fell flat. Great video Minty.
Yeas, the remake was not as good. I think in part making the enemy N. Korea rather than China which made it less believable. Done not to piss off the Chinese market of course. In the Cold War period, Red Dawn was hardly likely to be seen in the Soviet Union.
Peter K It's called All The Right Moves (1983) Their nudity was quite a surprise, but the scene was honest and even then they were both acted convincingly so early in both their careers. A good, serious and pure movie.
No one mentioned the brief scene where the camera pans across the bumper of a truck with the bumper sticker "You'll take my gun from my cold, dead hands" and a soldier walks past the driver's body lying half in the road and kicks the gun out of his hand. That's some cinematic genius. I don't think this was a movie about the horrors of war. Yes, there were horrors that each of the main characters went through; yes, it fundamentally changed who they were. But I always thought that the overall point was that you have to fight anyway. They were fighting and dying, but they were also living free. Their families were being tortured, starved, brainwashed, and killed in slavery. So as hard as it was on the kids, the alternative was worse. War's not pretty, but if someone else starts one, you have to finish it. Otherwise, you and your children and your children's children will end up as slaves.
Sad to say between being a 80's kid and patriotic and a 2020's kid worshipping socialism; the kids would either roll over or turn on you and their families for comrade.
@@chadwicklufc2832 Nah, “Eviction”. We kicking them MFers out. Also too bad they didn’t make a game out of this movie. Well they kinda did (Freedom Fighters, PS2) but it would’ve been cool to have the setting up in the mountains. Maybe like an open world game where you play as Jed then go back to your camp after a raid and start dirty dancing 😂
If you haven’t played Homefront for PS3 , the director of Red Dawn also was involved in the games story , which is a more modern story line . And that game is awesome and a deep storyline.
As great as this movie was, the ONLY part that was funny was the tank coming to the gas station to refuel and bell going "ding-ding" as the tank rolls over it.I still laugh and clap when this happens. Why?, because in the late 60's to the early 70's, gas stations had the same bell ring when our car drove in.A good memory of that time.
Marginally related story... I remember Rich hall around this time did a bit where he was on a stage with a 'key board' made of those type of bells & played Heart & Soul by soft shoe dancing on them!
I remember that as well. And recall when phones had dials, the handset was connected to a cord, and were located either in the kitchen and/or front hall.
I think you missed a big one. It's a common misconception that the invading force on the town is Soviet Russia and the reality is that it isn't. During the opening act one of the kids specifically say that they heard what sounded like spanish. Also if you noticed the leader of the invading forces does not look Russian at all and speaks Cuban to his men. To this day everyone still thinks the forces that invade the town are Soviet but are in fact Communist Cuban troops recruited by Soviet Russia. There are a few Soviet troops(namely advisors mostly) and a lot of soviet made equipment(also common for soviet ally nations) lead people to believe they are on the whole USSR troops.
In an alternate reality Described by the film I can totally see the Soldiers of Cuba as a massive invasion force allied by the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Forces. Only thing that never made sense to me was when Powers Booth says the Chinese were our only allies.
@@VoreAxalon there was this thing called the sino soviet split where basically the Soviets and the Chinese came to hate each other over who was the true socialist state and even fought a border war
In Red Dawn the United States was invaded by the Soviet Union, Cuban and Nicaragua.. So along with Russia, there are actually 2 other militaries there in the town of Calumet. There are several Russian troops throughout town.. The first troops that the Wolverines kill are Russian, along with the Russian troops that they kill, before they Execute the American prisoners/parents..The troops that track Darrel after he swallows a tracking device are actually Russian Special Forces Team called Spetsnaz.. So they are fighting Russian Troops, and Cuban Troops and Nicaragua Troops..
Minty, John Wick 3 has just surpassed most violent movie yet. There is only about 10 minutes total time when there isn't a gun battle or a fight. Serious. Love ya man!
Yeah, the mid 80’s through sometime into the 90’s were the last gasp of the peak of the US, giving way to its decay and decline. “Decadence” is a common sign of a late stage empire, but it also made for some amazing artifacts of Pop Culture especially movies, TV, and music.
This was the first violent/war movie I had ever watched. When I was 8 my grandfather let me stay up late and watch it with him, about a decade after the movie came out. It remains my fav war movie and holds a special place in my heart because of the bonding experience I had with my grandfather.
Saw this movie in a theater of predominantly military and again in a theater of civilians. Entirely different responses from the audience. Needless to say, the military audience was a bit more vocal in their appreciation of enemy soldiers getting whacked.
Saw it in the theater as well and the place whooped and holler watching the commies getting whacked, especially when they ambush the guys in the tank when they chase Jennifer Grey. You must have been in a liberal cesspool of a city when you saw it with a civilian crowd
Reviewing Red Dawn, cool to let you know I met Ben Johnson on John Wayne's "Wild Goose" when John Wayne invited me on board at Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands!
Basil Poledouris. Check out his other work. Conan The Barbarian is otherworldly. Iron Eagle. The Hunt For Red October. Legend. Do check out the Conan soundtrack. Anvil of Crom!!!!!
This movie came out when i was station at Norton AFB, Calif. You had to stand in line at the base theater to see the movie. Packed every night. Grate movie. Cold War.
and how America actually got invaded was through open borders and "diversity". The nation has already been destroyed. It's got to be the slowest, bloodless revolution in modern history.
@@thecandyman9308 Unfortunately, very true. In the late 60s when I was a teenager my dad, a WWII vet, said the communist Chinese had a 50 year plan where they would take us over without a shot being fired and here we are. They not only own us, they now have a president.
I really like actor William Smith who played the Soviet Colonel. Speaks fluent Russian and a few other languages fluently. Former Military Intelligence and acted in The Losers and Rich Man Poor Man mini series.
He has a Master's Degree in Russian Literature, and taught Russian the CIA agents for a time. He also wrote the speech he gave the troops during his first scene. He also Conan the Barbarian's father.
William Smith was the dude who almost beat Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can. Broke Clint's arm for him. Chuck Sheen was right not to mess with that guy.
He also played Conan's father in 'Conan The Barbarian'. Rumor has it that offf set, Arnold Schwarzenegger challenged Bill Smith to an arm wrestling contest and lost (Smith held the world record for reverse-curl). This apparently bruised Schwarzenegger's ego so much that he refused to have Smith cast in any more of his future films.
Yes mark. Yes mark. Thank you. I love red dawn. Have it on DVD. One of the few films I ever ordered online and that fifteen years ago. A classic. A favorite that still makes me weep at the end.
My sister-in-law's Dad was the principal of the school at the start of the movie when they filmed it there. My brother has bene to Las Vegas, NM several times for her family and I got there one evening on a long sightseeing trip with my wife. They still have a "Calumet CO" mural on a building there. I have often wondered about the 'M1' tank in that winter fight scene, as it looks awfully good but clearly wouldn't be the real thing
This film is a 80s cult classic. Great cast, including Patrick Swayze *(RIP)* and the late great Powers Boothe *(RIP).* Great vid. Please do *First Blood,* the only one without Rambo in the title! 👍
My first PG13 movie. My grandfather and I went to see it, he caught so much hell. The part that hit my young mind the hardest was the Cuban Colonel writing to his wife and kids.
I was in the US Army in Desert Storm and we painted the Wolverines name and symbol on the tanks and APCs we took out.
They did that in Iraqi Freedom, too, but with the punisher logo.
MATG another common sign was Wall Drug. 25 years later, I had to go to SD to see what that was about.
FUCK YES. So mericuh lol
We did it on the back of our tracking radar.
I straight had started a real gang with same name. This was when L..A. Cali gangs were out and it way spread',n to other cities. I remember when crips and Blood not in st.louiz.. I was serious about my gang to join you had to do a bunch of physical &mental test. To prove yourself. I never understood how getting your ass whoped how that's show'n love & prove you tough getting jumped.
The thing that always hooked me emotionally about the film was these kids made a difference. Many of them die. The scene at the end of the film where Jed and Matt are mortally wounded, Jed carries Matt to the park where their father took them to as children so they can die there. I'll always remember that and how touching it still is. It was a suicide mission and both brothers knew it, but they had each other. Great film.
I've always thought that Matt was already dead, and that Jed was dying.
The thing that always gets me is the Cuban Officer writing the letter home to his wife telling her that he was tired of war, then giving Jed the pass as he carries Matt away from the fight.
30 years ago, "Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon" was a thing. I always thought that was too easy, and decided to start tying actors to John Wayne, through the movies that he starred in. "Red Dawn" had Ben Johnson in it, and he had been in several John Wayne films, "Rio Grande", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", & "The Train Robbers" being 3 of them.
@@earlwyss520 You can see where Matt stops breathing. A friend pointed that out to me and I have never forgot it. I'm 51 now and have never forgot it.
On a lighter note. In the beginning of the film after they get away and are in the mountains around the camp fire and Patrick is yelling at everybody that its the end of the world. In this video its clip 1:43. He tries 3 times to get his hands in his pockets, but since (in real life too) the jackets are SO brand new he cannot.
It's a feel good story.
And also how the Cuban colonel let them live.
@@sheldonf He remembered himself at the age.
For me, the scene with the dad was the most impactful. He explains that he was hard on them, made them learn survival skills, probably whipped their asses when they needed it. He did it all so they could survive. As an 80's kid, I imagined my Grandfather who was a ww2 veteran - behind that fence, telling me to avenge him. Thats powerful stuff boys and girls...
"AVENGE ME!!"
@@RestrainingHollywood yes!
I always remember the line where he says sometimes I did things that made you hate me. I thought about that as I was growing up and realizing parents do things we sometimes don't understand, but it is because they love us and want us to be decent human beings and to be able to handle yourself.
@@charleslowe522 best comment winner
AVENGE ME BOYS
To this day “WOLVERINES!!!” gets the blood pumping. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It was cool to see "Wolverines!" spray painted on knocked out tanks during our time in the desert.
Colorado guy here, growing up I loved this movie, I can still remember going to the theater with my brother to see it.
R. I. P. Big bro I miss you!
Grew up in Greeley. I always thought the film depicted Lyons. Could've been any little town between Boulder and Ft C. Now the guy says none of it filmed in CO? Letdown.
RIP big brother
@@stephenbradley402 Grew up in Boulder. I would have SWORN some of it was filmed in Sedalia Colorado and Garden Of The Gods in Colorado Springs. Of course it was years later I learned where it was filmed.
Wolverines!!
Sorry bro God bless you
"In the early days of World War III, guerrillas - mostly children - placed the names of their lost upon this rock.
They fought here alone and gave up their lives, so "that this nation shall not perish from the earth."
yup
Still tears me up to this day, even for a movie that is not real. Sadly, in too many wars children are forced to fight to survive and that is why the film is important.
Amen. I get stirred too
Heroic
@@Wolfen443 lol
As an Airman specializing in Missile Security at a SAC base in the upper Midwest, I saw this movie the same day it was released. I'll always remember how the entire theater gasped when Lt.Col. Tanner remarked on how "...they took out the silos here in the Dakotas..."😲
I lived right near , as close as possible to Cheyenne mountain. Always laughed because I knew I was screwed if we got bombed
I was a high school student, and an AF brat who moved from EAFB SD to ZAB Germany in 1984. I later served as a USAF Security Policeman (Security Specialist) and can confirm the Minuteman silos' vulnerability to sappers. After several years working Aircraft Security in PacAF, SAC, & USAFE, then working Missile Security at MAFB ND & SC, the vulnerabilities of the system were blatantly obvious to me.
@@jimbutke655 You don't need codes to take them out, just enough HE & very large shaped charges (based on 55 gallon drums) aimed at the joint in the blast door.
@@jimbutke655 Who said anything about dropping them, they could have easily driven across the southern border with the explosives, plus ANFRO was easier to get before Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal Bldg in OK city. They also never thought about shaped charges aimed at the joint in the blast door. Having worked both Aircraft, & ICBM security for a decade, I realized that you could fill the Encyclopedia Britannica with all of the things that the "Experts" didn't think about.
Oh, about them being built to withstand a nuke, a Combat Crew Member told me that was with 1960s era weapons, by 1995 when I served with the 741st MS at Minot AFB ND, the current generation of weapons would decimate the force.
@@earlwyss520 That is assuming they do not have equally advanced modern protective measures today as former employees of Raytheon and Lockheed have implied.
THIS was the movie that defined my childhood. I watched it countless times. I would defend it to the death against anyone that called it a frivolous action movie. The characters had depth and the consequences were real. This was no unkillable Rambo. Key players in this story lost their lives.
I have to say it: John Millius may have been a brilliant writer, but he was a lousy director
@@Viking_Luchador I find it hard to believe this is the same guy who co-wrote Apocalypse Now.
It's not a frivolous action movie. It's a sad, propaganda for the lowest common denominator, hack pile of ass....but not a frivolous action movie.
I am 51 years old and have seen this movie probably 100 times and it still brings tears of pride to my eyes.
You are there number 1 fan for sure I also enjoyed it and the story I give it a 8 out of 10
I always liked that Harry Dean Stanton's last line was "Avenge me!", and then 28 years later had a role in 'The Avengers'.
Hey Todd how about this in the first Avengers movie when the Hulk falls from the Air Carrier and crashes to the earth Harry Deam Stanton asks are you an Alien!!! He was in Alien in 1979!!!!
Todd Gordon Powers Boothe (RIP) was also in The Avengers...
I was a cold war kid and I loved this movie growing up. WOLVERINES!!!!!
Peter Larson Me too! My friends and I would recreate war movies at construction sites on the weekends. Great times 😎
I recorded it free HBO week and watched it 100 times.
For us it started with "Damnation Alley" then this came out and it was Much more realistic.
We were rooting for the Soviets!!! We hate America vs everyone else movies.
@Peter Michalski Soviets were respectful and polite people. It's not like they committed near-genocide on the Indian tribe which is worse than what the Nazis did. Bottomline, I hate this type of Hollywood flicks. Wrongfully portraying US enemies in movies. The real US: Racism, violence, drugs, warmongers, bullies, rapists, I'm glad my country kicked out your bases. So many wrongdoing done on my people.
Interesting to note that Patrick Swayze so loved the area that he bought a ranch near the shooting area where he raised Arabian horses for many years. His wife still has the ranch high in Gallinas canyon. A good friend of mine is the caretaker there.
@Derp Derp my dad was an extra in north and south. Still has some pictures from it.
This is an underrated classic. The producers smartly cast excellent "bad guy" actor William Smith as a Russian officer, but then also added Ron O'Neal as a Hispanic/Cuban officer. The anti-war message comes through in how the Ron O'Neal character spares the Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen characters, which is the second-most powerful scene after "Avenge Me."
Brilliant to Hear what you Said, But I need to Discuss something to you
Amen
Killedm all
Awesome avenge me
John Milius is a Man's Man ! As the director of Red Dawn, Conan, and Farewell To The King, he infuses the stories with the will to survive in unbelievably brutal conditions. A code of honor and loyalty to those who fight alongside you is in evidence throughout his films. These "Kids" have no choice but to grow up fast and find courage they never knew they possessed. What's deeply moving is the scene at the Drive-In where the two boys see their Father, bruised and beaten, but still on his feet. "Avenge Me" he yells out as they flee back into the hills. It gave me chills watching it for the first time, but can you imagine having that happen to your family. It made me proud when they took the fight to the enemy.
Milius and Red Dawn are often called jingoistic... but I believe Millius' own comments about the film show something deeper, perhaps cynicism... after all their heroics- all that's left are the kids names are painted on a rock, under a plaque that nobody visits.
Milius had a bad stroke and has been fucked up for years
Could be. Most monuments are visited by the people who lived at the time of the conflict, and when they die out ..., who is there to remember the sacrifices those who died made. But isn't that also true of Arlington cemetery or the graves in France honoring the men who died on the beaches of Normandy ? Is that cynical ? Are we that shallow as a people ? Maybe so. Look around at what we've become. Heads buried in our phones, even at traffic lights. Caught up in "What's Trending". How pathetic is that ?
The Colonel: "All that hate's gonna burn you up kid"
Robert: "It keeps me warm"
If only the Colonel warned Robert that you can't take on an Mi-24 Hind with an AK-47, no matter how much you hate it and no matter how loud you yell "Wolverines!".
@@22steve5150 last great act of defiance... WOLVERINES!!!
@@22steve5150 You can, but I mean it would take Rambo levels of plot armour
@@22steve5150 sometimes in faceof total defeat the only option is absolute defiance
This is making me remember how great movies were in the 1980s.
The guy with his back to camera as he shoots up the school, shown about 3 times in this video, ta da ! That was me !!
Really??
Now that's a Fun Fact☺
Congratulations. Kool scene of you 💙💗
I've loved this movie since I was a kid.
Liked you better in Suspect Zero tbh Jumbo.😁
@@herbalmilitant2159 czcams.com/video/DD_1FJexiPg/video.html
Lol good stuff. Keep on going my man.
thats freaking sweet, hopefully you got to have more fun on the film and the set, pretty cool man
Interesting item: in the Army, in the 80s, we watched this as a part of training....because the mock ups were so good we were quized on vehicle ID! They were that good.
Were you in the 8th grade army? Serious question.
@@RuminatingWizard Wow, you do be about an oaf.
The tanks had the wrong running gear. They used M48 Patton tanks as the base vehicle. Soviet T-72 & T-80 tanks have bigger bogies, and no return idlers. The BTR-60 looks good, except for the MG3 sticking out of the turret. The Anti-Tank cannons on the flatbed they hide behind were US and British, then there is the VTOL attempting Mig-27 LTC Andy tosses a grenade into....
I had Red Dawn and Highlander recorded on the same VHS tape. Nearly wore that thing out.
there can be only one red dawn!
Right next to Terminator/Alien/last half of the 87 super bowl.
God Bless VHS
I think I had it on a tape with The Empire Strikes Back and The Breakfast Club.
HAHA. I bet the tape was thin AF.
One of the best films in the 80’s. A real classic and a personal favorite.
John Milius deserves a medal for his outstanding work in helping to win the Cold War. Ironically, he helped prevent WWIII.
RD and The Day After.
I read recently that someone in Ukraine must have watched Red Dawn because they spraypainted "Wolverines!" on the side of a burned out wreck of a Russian tank. Way to go! I give it a ten for irony and another ten for style. 🇺🇦 To my Brothers & Sisters there, I'm praying for you.
No, because there are american and British solders there in Ukrain who spraypainted that.
The Ukrainian special forces already call themselves Wolverines and Wolves dating back to Bandera's and prior Sich Ukrainian Rifle battalions from the 1920s as a form of 'Ukrainian militaristic ultranationalism.' It has nothing to do with this, and if it did - then I assume it would be because of western volunteers.
Are you serious???
That would be funny considering the Soviet commander Gen. Brashchenko was a Ukrainian.
And most of the Ukrainian soldiers have nazi officer emblems too
When I tell women that I loved that 80's movie with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, they always assume I mean Dirty Dancing... NOPE
I like them both! 😃👍
Lets be honest here. Top two movies of the 80s hands down
Dirty Dancing? I never heard of it!
@@roryscott2941 Oh man. That means you did not have the time of your life but instead you have put Baby in the corner.
And Marty mcfly mum
Patrick Swaze Powers Booth R.I.P. Both awesome actors.
Both sorely missed!
Do not forget Ron O'Neal (Col. Bella), and Harry Dean Stanton (Tom Eckert). Two legendary actors. R.I.P.
Boothe* I normally give a rats behind about spelling but i feel a bit different about one of my favorite actors, sorry ;)
Patrick "Swayze"
Also R.I.P. Ben Johnson.
If you’ve ever been to Iraq or Afghanistan you will see the effect of red dawn. Wolverines painted on all kinds of armor hulks.
I met Lea some time ago in NC at the Mad Monster Party Convention. What a total sweetheart she was. When I asked her to sign my Red Dawn Poster she was like “ Oh my gosh, how old could You have been when this came out?” She told me that they all had to do the eight weeks of basic training and she loved it. Patrick was the driving force for all of them to stay on pace and was the motivator already taking the lead character. She was really laughing and happy to hear that the movie inspired all the eight year olds in my neighborhood to take to the woods yelling “Wolverines” while playing Red Dawn.
"There's a half million scarecrows in Denver who would give anything for a mouthful of what you've got."
Red Dawn is not a movie, it's a training film!!
gary tru my thoughts, exactly.
Actually yes it can be
did any body else go to the army surplus store and stock up! I did, my neighbor thought we where in a gang.we dug foxholes,read military manuals and talked to Vietnam vets for the nitty gritty. they loved have a bunch of snot nosed punks that wanted to hear what they went thru...good times. now we would have gotten sensitivity training and cultural re-education....wait a minuet???
Not exactly.If you observe their lack of camouflage and noise discipline,you'd wonder how they survived even escaping the initial invasion.
Remember,if you are fighting guerrilla war,YOU are prey and had better think before you act.
I went to public schools, so more of a *refresher course" for me...
Funny story: Even though I was very much alive when this movie hit theaters, I did not actually see the movie until 2004... 20 years after its' first release!
A whole bunch of reasons for this epic delay, most of them having to do with the fact that I was a little kid (barely 5 years old) when this movie hit theaters, and there was simply no way my family was taking me to see such a film. After that, I guess you could say I just... forgot about it. Because the 80's, for me, was chock full of "Back to the Future," "Terminator," "Predator," "Star Wars," "Star Trek," and about a dozen other pretty good films that just appealed to my childhood. "Red Dawn," for as amazing as it was, just kind of got... buried under the avalanche of awesome that the 80's was, in terms of movies!
Throughout my teenage/young adult years in the 90's, I was always aware that it existed, but never had the urge to rent it, and see it for myself. It looked cheesy, like one of those dumb 80's action flicks that the decade is famous for. So I stayed away from it, and was never recommended by anybody that I go watch it. Also, the 90's was pretty chock full of awesome films too. I continued to forget "Red Dawn" even existed.
I saw it in 2004, when I was in the Navy. I was on board an Aircraft Carrier, while we were docked at a port, and I was otherwise on watch. I literally had nothing to do but watch the bloody film! I was not thrilled at the prospect, but hey... better than just staring at a blank bulkhead for eight hours... I only saw like half the film, but what I saw actually SURPRISED ME! It was riveting. It was engrossing. It was tense. And I loved the quasi-real special effects and props that the film boasted (such a difference from movies today). The next time I watched it, about two months later, when I finally came back to the United States after my deployment, I made it a point to watch the entire movie with some of my squadron-mates. I watched it all the way through... and to this day, it's STILL one of the greatest war movies I've ever watched!
I've been a fan since 2004. And I'm not sorry at all about that, because it's an awesome movie that I really wish I had gotten around to seeing earlier than I did!
I was a High School Sophomore & USAF brat when it came out, but missed it in the theaters, because dad was reasigned to Germany. I saw it on VHS about a year later.
Thank you for your service, OP.
Love how these studio execs are always like “I love this story. Let’s completely change it.”
That's so true
The Red Dawn movies can perfectly show the difference in the expectation of todays movie-goers and the mid-1980's movie-goers.
Red Dawn 84 is a movie about hardship, struggles, and sacrifice. It's made to be as realistic as possible, it's not flashy or over-the-top.
Red Dawn 2012 is a movie where the action is completely unrealistic. There's no emotion and no human struggle. It's all about the flash and the visuals and has no depth or substance at all.
I saw both movies and I have to disagree about the remake not having human struggle as they did showcase plenty of that and the main character loses his entire family with his dad first and his big brother latter and many of his friends as well. Its the ending that they botched things up. Instead of showing a more realistic and in tone with the movie's pacing up until that point they instead end in what can only be described as a propaganda video.
But thats the world we sadly live in nowadays where is all about the worship of the state and it's symbols and of course corporatist backed consumerism.
@@RoyCyberPunk Ironically, the remake was originally supposed to be about a Red Chinese invasion, but, China owns so much of Hollywood that the film makers were pressured into changing it to a totally unrealistic North Korea invasion scenario. Then, again, considering how Red China seems increasingly "communist" in name only as they are pretty much openly embracing the Free Market any more, perhaps it's just as well.
I totally agree. The 2012 one was just " splosions n stuff "
@@RoyCyberPunk The movie was crap. It was the movie equivalent of an orgy. No substance, just fucking around.
Having served I can tell you right now, most Marines can't even get a claymore in the right direction.... and it says FRONT TWARD ENEMY on the thing.
The idea that you enlist in the lowest funded branch of the NAVY and become a master Gorilla fighter is more fake than North Korea affording the fucking fuel to deliver it's military to the USA. It was a Gen M "give ME" movie, like shaking keys in front of a baby.
I agree for the most part. However, I believe it also shows the difference between the generation that would have taken part in the original film and the present generation. The Wolverines who faced the occupying force in the second film were in no way the same quality as those who faced the Soviets in the original film.
Some of the extras that were Russian soldiers came from the Air Force Security Police Squadron at Kirtland AFB NM. Many of the Russian weapon props were still on display in the unit's training room when I arrived there in 1992.
When the dad is saying his last goodbye's, it made me cry hard as a kid. I still tear up even today, maybe it's because my dad wasn't around, not sure. But I love Jed reminds me of my older bro. Great review minty.
I work at the Copper Star Indoor Shooting Range, which has several full autos that can be rented by customers and then fired on our range with a Range Safety Officer. One of our choices is the actual M78 Valmet rifle that was used by Swayze in the movie. The Valmet was used in place of an RPK for the same reason as they couldn't use real Russian tanks for filming. As far as I know it was one of the gew guns that weren't just inoperable props. Just remember if you want to go "Swayze Crazy" while yelling "Wolverines!", come see us at Copper Star Indoor Shooting Range in Camp Verde, Arizona.
The 2012 version was cruel and unusual punishment. A true crime against humanity.
I think there was only 1 or 2 redeeming scenes in the whole movie. Don't ask me which ones because the movie was so forgettable but when watching it, I thought "that one wasn't bad". I think it was when they mounted a .50 cal in the back of a mustang.
@@muskokamike127 It was an M-134 Minigun.
Even IF they used the initial Plot {PRC invades the US. The PRC got upset and they switched to DPRK - who can't deliver troops to the US in order to fulfill the Invasion quotas. But PRC would be the aggressor. Never saw the new remake. Hope I die saying that!
PG-13 first. Violent & GBWR! New these as I knew and still know EVERY word in this film (English, Spanish and Russia. Whilst a kid, I had no idea what was said/fully appreciated what it meant. Best and Fav all time film.
The worst crime comited was the change of the enemy country from China to North Korea. Without that it would have actually been interesting to watch (and a lot more realistic too). But no, it just became an even worse piece of propaganda.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 China vetoed, so it was changed to North Korea.
I watched this as an 8yo back in the mid 1980s. I would literally pray the Russians would invade while I was at school so I could run to my local gun store and loot it, then run into the hills to wage a guerrilla war against the big red threat.
Ah but to be young and have such dreams.
I did the same thing and if I'm being completely honest I still find my self staring out my office window towards the mountains quietly hopping to see those paratroopers and the start of the invasion! I'm sure war is absolute he'll ! But between babysitting my idiot employees at work my loud unappreciative wife spending my money on new clothes to go with her new diet that won't take a pound off her ever growing ass and the realization I'm trapped with this wilds beast and are 3 lazy probably border line retarded kids and these clowns at my office I can honestly say the thought of being ran through by a AK47's bayonet would be a welcome escape from nagging!
@@treverschafer5074I feel your pain. It sounds like you should get a divorce, change your job, maybe even move to a new place. Living near the ocean may have a more calming effect. By the way, I like this movie too.
School is just utterly shite.
In the mind of a bored schoolchild, even war would be a preferable alternative to school.
@Trever Schafer - take a Xanax dude, drink a few beers, shoot up a school - something man! Just chill.
"Well, when you grow up, you'll know these Danny. Now get up here and piss in the radiator."
I love Red Dawn. The characters all have a different response to whats happened. A couple of them are scared & want to give up, another becomes thirsty for revenge, the girls want to fight back & the brothers see no other way but to fight.
It is a great look and the term ‘what if’ is perfect for this.
Don't forget the turncoat slimey politician.
Still like the original better than the remake 👍👍
They HAD a remake?! Yeah it was pretty bad.
Every one does
Chris Hemsworth and Josh Peck actually agree with you.
Mike Aveling the remake or reboot was lame 😒 only good seine was when they robbed the Subway restaurant 🤨
The remake would have been better if they kept their balls and kept China as the main villain.
“Two toughest kids on the block, I guess. Sooner or later, they're gonna fight.”
Nicely done
Yep
@Sean Thompson it was five to one I got four of them
@Sean Thompson This and Extreme Prejudice.. he was cool AF
"Kid..all that hatred will burn you up"
In the 80’s my brother and I loved to watch this, then paint our faces and go outside in the night with our play-guns and battle the neighborhood kids. SO MANY good memories. Nostalgia is such an understatement.
Great movie. Haven’t seen it in 35 years or more, but it is one of my favorites from that era.
This movie is where I learned I could piss in a radiator if it's overheating!
I'd need to use a measuring
cup😄😅😆😂😁.
Life skills
Good!You learned something!
It'll end your radiator.
Same here.
RIP Patrick Swayze.
💔💔💔
@MasterStryfe Not sure if you're trying to be funny or just an idiot. Hmm...
he died? wow i never knew this.
@@zemetrius pancreatic cancer :/
@@lokisingularity3394 dang, i hate cancer. my wife has breast cancer.
The kid with the bullet hole in his forehead was my middle school best buddy. We lived in Albuquerque.
Saw it maybe 3 times in the theater, and maybe 286 times on my copied VHS tape, which I still have. A fine piece of American cinematography.
Bonus fact: Jennifer Grey starred in Ferris Bueller's Day Off with Charlie Sheen.
And which part did Charlie sheen play?
He was the boy in the police department with Jennifer grey.
@@ARTll-zy1cp He basically played himself, a crazed junkie at the police station.
What's next You;re going to tell us water is wet?
and C Thomas Howell was in The Outsiders with Patrick Swayze
Movie critic: “No movie can have a higher kill count of 118”...
John Wick: “ hold my beer”.
John wick still couldn't save just 1 dog
Challenge Accepted - Where eagles dare.
@@michaelivey6459
Hold my tequila... "The Wild Bunch."
Hot shots part Deux
This movie makes some serious points. One: There is a scene where a Russian officer orders one his troops to look in the city hall flles for documents with a specific number. "What is that?" he asks. The officer answers, "Those are gun registrations." So, an invading army would automatically have an advantage; something anti-gun people never consider. //. War turns even young people into hardened fighters who abandon all sense of humanity //. At the end, you see it on the looks of everyone's face on both sides of the conflict--war is disgusting and to be avoided at all costs. //. Red Dawn has a very patriotic overtone, which infuriated many in the liberal press and Hollywood. In one scene, as the previously mentioned gun-owners are rounded up and then lined up to be shot, one of the starts singing, "American the Beautiful," just seconds before they are all mowed down.
All over the place with your take. Agent Orange (trump) and his buddy, Putin initiated WW3 on the US in 2016! Wake Up!
Michael Wolfe total projection. The Obamas, Clintons and the rest of the DNC have their fingerprints all over Russia and Putin. The same crowd hates the Constitution, individual liberty and assaults any person, group or institution that doesn’t bow down to it. Only true believers and the willingly ignorant fail to see the progressive movement has been waging a fight with liberty for over a 100 years.
@@adamsandifer5588 Sound like a true trumper there, BLAMING EVERYONE, taking no responsibility. So sad.
Interesting. I made no comment about political parties or the current administration or anything. I only brought up true statements about the movie and actual Hollywood history (I remember the reviews). The comment about "bllaming everyone and taking no responsibility..." cracked me up. Was Moxley supposed to take responsibility for something; ro me? For what? Trump hatred truly is everywhere. Even in the comments about a 35 year old movie. btw, will someone please explain what Trump's motivation would be to join with a communist when he is one of the greatest beneficiaries of capitalism, democracy and the free market--things all despised by Communism. You can say "Putin, Putin, Putin" all day long. It's like endless cursing--after awhile, it has no meaning and no effect, it's just noise.
@@ronricherson6685 Only person that brings up Putin, is trump..Fact! You are suggesting certain labels have to match up and stay in bubbles, which I'm sure you know does not actually happen. It all about the green and power in the end, who owns and owes who. You think trump joined Putin and I say Putin OWNS trump..bigly difference
As Yamamoto said," You cannot invade the mainland United States, there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass"
Quote never proven, though given Yamamoto's experience with the US it makes sense.
@@craiga2002 There are two quotes of Yamamoto that made him look like a prophet. "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The other is: "In the first six months of a war with the United States and Great Britain, I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success." He nailed the second quote almost to the day when 5 minutes of pure luck at Midway turned the tide of the war for the allies in the Pacific. That first quote was dealt to Japan in spades with the victory at Midway.
Now that I know about the Bunny Casting method, I love those two even more.
Tru'dat!
Another bonus.. 3 of the actors in Red Dawn were also in the film The Outsiders.
Actually there are four. Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell, Darren Dalton, William Smith.
I am surprised it was not mentioned
The reason why it was t alots of actors in age range then think they did alot of movies
I saw this movie on base after joining the army. Everyone loved it.
I showed my 13 year old daughter this movie. The next weekend she invited her friends over to watch it. "Because we live here!"
Ok who else was yelling wolverines for a week after watching the movie ??
a week? I am still yelling it.
Hank Messaros avenge me boy
Avenge me!!!
Hell, I do it at least monthly and it's been 35 years!
Hank Messaros that was my school's mascot
Everybody! Although CHIGGS 58TH does it the most!! ;)
Filmed in my hometown....the high school in the movie was actually my junior high school (memorial middle school)
i too am form las vegas new mexico
Matt.....where you at now?
@@patrickpenix3399 abq
I'm in Canada.....
@@patrickpenix3399 LVNM, better than the disgusting ABQ...OR CUCKNADIA
The Chair is against the wall. John ha a long mustache.
"It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone. The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache. It’s twelve o’clock, American, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song.”
That wording is from WW2. It was code to "The Resistance", to attach, and certain events to execute.
This scene in Red Dawn was copied from a scene in the movie The Longest Day, in which French Resistance fighters are listening to the radio and hearing the various code phrases being broadcasted. It's been a while since I've seen The Longest Day, but I think they even use the exact same phrases in both movies.
@@dongilleo9743, it is the exact same code used before D-Day.
I remember hearing when the Dirty Dancing came out that Patrick and Grey still had issues, but it showed their professionalism as it didn't show in the film
Red Dawn is awesome. I think the chemistry of the cast is what makes it such a great film. The remake didn't have that chemistry so it fell flat. Great video Minty.
I thought Chris was alright. I bought him as a marine.
But I see what you mean
The heart of Hollywood has flatlined
@@daviddrouant2852
Indeed. Lack of originality
There's also a severe lack in screenplay,acting,balls to the wall thinking,inapt directors,and too many executive intrusions.
Yeas, the remake was not as good. I think in part making the enemy N. Korea rather than China which made it less believable. Done not to piss off the Chinese market of course. In the Cold War period, Red Dawn was hardly likely to be seen in the Soviet Union.
I always wanted me some Lea Thompson...
...her in back to the future part 2!!!
!!! (oYo) !!!
Peppermint Catsass Did a flick with Tom Cruise as a high School football player, she as his band geek girlfriend. Forget the name, but check it out.
@@peterk8909 ...she was cute as all get down, in The Wild Life!
Peter K It's called All The Right Moves (1983) Their nudity was quite a surprise, but the scene was honest and even then they were both acted convincingly so early in both their careers. A good, serious and pure movie.
VanielDeeform Thx for the title.
No one mentioned the brief scene where the camera pans across the bumper of a truck with the bumper sticker "You'll take my gun from my cold, dead hands" and a soldier walks past the driver's body lying half in the road and kicks the gun out of his hand. That's some cinematic genius.
I don't think this was a movie about the horrors of war. Yes, there were horrors that each of the main characters went through; yes, it fundamentally changed who they were. But I always thought that the overall point was that you have to fight anyway. They were fighting and dying, but they were also living free. Their families were being tortured, starved, brainwashed, and killed in slavery. So as hard as it was on the kids, the alternative was worse. War's not pretty, but if someone else starts one, you have to finish it. Otherwise, you and your children and your children's children will end up as slaves.
Sad to say between being a 80's kid and patriotic and a 2020's kid worshipping socialism; the kids would either roll over or turn on you and their families for comrade.
Red Dawn takes on a completely different feel with what's going on in Ukraine at present.
Agreed
Its the same Russia nothing has changed. That's why this movie was so scary.
Western news coverage and this film are well-paired.
I love a good ole’ anti-commie movie.
At least u Americans have guns everywhere in the UK we would be screwed
We're currently fixin to have an anti socialist \ commie war against said tyrants currently trying to suppress and oppress us here in the States.
I wish this movie had a sequel
@@jc1840 red night or summit
@@chadwicklufc2832 Nah, “Eviction”. We kicking them MFers out. Also too bad they didn’t make a game out of this movie. Well they kinda did (Freedom Fighters, PS2) but it would’ve been cool to have the setting up in the mountains. Maybe like an open world game where you play as Jed then go back to your camp after a raid and start dirty dancing 😂
You did Red Dawn. That means you gotta do The Outsiders!
What, you wanna rumble!
@@joe_8699 Rumble Fish too
stay gold
Oh Snap!!! Yessss!!! I love both the book and movie
Oh Snap!!! Settle down Pony Boy!
If you haven’t played Homefront for PS3 , the director of Red Dawn also was involved in the games story , which is a more modern story line . And that game is awesome and a deep storyline.
I still lament Homefront wasn't more interesting/ different than other shooters of the day besides the campaign story
This movie was HUGE when I was a child. Years later it was still part of the psychology for people interested in joining the military.
As great as this movie was, the ONLY part that was funny was the tank coming to the gas station to refuel and bell going "ding-ding" as the tank rolls over it.I still laugh and clap when this happens. Why?, because in the late 60's to the early 70's, gas stations had the same bell ring when our car drove in.A good memory of that time.
I grew up in NJ, since there's no self serve those bell hoses were still around for a long time at least into the 90's.
Milton 805 driveway signal bell
Marginally related story... I remember Rich hall around this time did a bit where he was on a stage with a 'key board' made of those type of bells & played Heart & Soul by soft shoe dancing on them!
They still have them in my hometown.
I remember that as well. And recall when phones had dials, the handset was connected to a cord, and were located either in the kitchen and/or front hall.
I think you missed a big one. It's a common misconception that the invading force on the town is Soviet Russia and the reality is that it isn't. During the opening act one of the kids specifically say that they heard what sounded like spanish. Also if you noticed the leader of the invading forces does not look Russian at all and speaks Cuban to his men. To this day everyone still thinks the forces that invade the town are Soviet but are in fact Communist Cuban troops recruited by Soviet Russia. There are a few Soviet troops(namely advisors mostly) and a lot of soviet made equipment(also common for soviet ally nations) lead people to believe they are on the whole USSR troops.
In an alternate reality Described by the film I can totally see the Soldiers of Cuba as a massive invasion force allied by the Eastern Bloc and the Soviet Forces. Only thing that never made sense to me was when Powers Booth says the Chinese were our only allies.
@@VoreAxalon there was this thing called the sino soviet split where basically the Soviets and the Chinese came to hate each other over who was the true socialist state and even fought a border war
And the Cuban colonel wasn’t fluent in Spanish which surprised the hell out of me because I am and his accent is incredible…
In Red Dawn the United States was invaded by the Soviet Union, Cuban and Nicaragua.. So along with Russia, there are actually 2 other militaries there in the town of Calumet.
There are several Russian troops throughout town.. The first troops that the Wolverines kill are Russian, along with the Russian troops that they kill, before they Execute the American prisoners/parents..The troops that track Darrel after he swallows a tracking device are actually Russian Special Forces Team called Spetsnaz..
So they are fighting Russian Troops, and Cuban Troops and Nicaragua Troops..
I never get tired of this movie.
Minty, John Wick 3 has just surpassed most violent movie yet. There is only about 10 minutes total time when there isn't a gun battle or a fight. Serious. Love ya man!
"Could you kill a bunny if you were stranded in the woods?"
Young dude with a beard and flannel:.........."is it gluten free?"
Gluten Free!? Bunch of candy-a$$ed vegan MIllennials...
@Rob Osborne I'll also bet you that those pussies who whined over the rabbit are the most likely to end up committing atrocities during wartime.
@Rob Osborne 88-Mikes are annoying.
Lots of love 12-Bravo
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Rob Osborne Rabbits are here on Earth for us to harvest. Also, not the same Rocky that played for the Steelers?
The 80s movie scene was INCREDIBLE! Just look at all the movies referenced in this clip!! This was the modern golden age! 1984...awesome year!
Lots good movies and music were released in 1984. Good times.
"1984... awesome year!"
Context matters, kids. Just thought that was funny.
Yeah, the mid 80’s through sometime into the 90’s were the last gasp of the peak of the US, giving way to its decay and decline. “Decadence” is a common sign of a late stage empire, but it also made for some amazing artifacts of Pop Culture especially movies, TV, and music.
Saw Red Dawn in the theater when it premiered in 1984. Then stayed in the theater and watched the whole movie again. Awesome.
This was the first violent/war movie I had ever watched. When I was 8 my grandfather let me stay up late and watch it with him, about a decade after the movie came out. It remains my fav war movie and holds a special place in my heart because of the bonding experience I had with my grandfather.
Saw this movie in a theater of predominantly military and again in a theater of civilians. Entirely different responses from the audience.
Needless to say, the military audience was a bit more vocal in their appreciation of enemy soldiers getting whacked.
Saw it in the theater as well and the place whooped and holler watching the commies getting whacked, especially when they ambush the guys in the tank when they chase Jennifer Grey. You must have been in a liberal cesspool of a city when you saw it with a civilian crowd
as Patrick Swaze grabs the mini gun.. he looks down the barrel of the camera and says.. no one leaves BABY in the corner..
Swayze And Grey actually hated each other in real life.
I was smoking a bowl, the weed is all over the floor and I'm purple from coughing out that rip. Thanks for that.
LOL!!!!!! that is a good one sir Gary you made my morning
🤠 Good one, Gary. Lol
not too bad for a blind white boy
I saw this film in the theater back in ‘84. This was the origin of my obsession with the Kalashnikov.
Reviewing Red Dawn, cool to let you know I met Ben Johnson on John Wayne's "Wild Goose" when John Wayne invited me on board at Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands!
I saw this film, Terminator, Ghostbusters, & Gremlins at a drive in theater from the top of a 4x4 Suburban with a bunch of my cousins.
I really miss the eighties!!
@@LadyGreenEyes964 Four awesome 1984 films
@@downhomesunset So many good movies from that decade!
I think what holds up the best about the movie is the music. Just love the score.
Basil Poledouris. Check out his other work. Conan The Barbarian is otherworldly. Iron Eagle. The Hunt For Red October. Legend. Do check out the Conan soundtrack. Anvil of Crom!!!!!
Those were excellent negotiation tactics....PATRICK...SWAYZE.
This movie came out when i was station at Norton AFB, Calif. You had to stand in line at the base theater to see the movie. Packed every night. Grate movie. Cold War.
In scouts my ret. Marine boy scout master showed us this film stating "this will be you should foreign aggressors step armed on free soil."
and how America actually got invaded was through open borders and "diversity". The nation has already been destroyed. It's got to be the slowest, bloodless revolution in modern history.
@@thecandyman9308 Unfortunately, very true. In the late 60s when I was a teenager my dad, a WWII vet, said the communist Chinese had a 50 year plan where they would take us over without a shot being fired and here we are. They not only own us, they now have a president.
One of my all time favorite films, while simple, it is still very epic.
I was in the Army when this came out. We got the VHS of it and watched it a lot... for motivation purposes, I assure you.
I really like actor William Smith who played the Soviet Colonel. Speaks fluent Russian and a few other languages fluently. Former Military Intelligence and acted in The Losers and Rich Man Poor Man mini series.
He has a Master's Degree in Russian Literature, and taught Russian the CIA agents for a time. He also wrote the speech he gave the troops during his first scene.
He also Conan the Barbarian's father.
He is also the toughest looking intellectual in captivity! ;-)
William Smith was the dude who almost beat Clint Eastwood in Any Which Way You Can. Broke Clint's arm for him. Chuck Sheen was right not to mess with that guy.
And was Conans father... Original milius version...
He actually spoke Russian and was a member of the CIA. Sheen had a good "read" on that fellow.
Right turn Clyde!!
He also played Conan's father in 'Conan The Barbarian'. Rumor has it that offf set, Arnold Schwarzenegger challenged Bill Smith to an arm wrestling contest and lost (Smith held the world record for reverse-curl). This apparently bruised Schwarzenegger's ego so much that he refused to have Smith cast in any more of his future films.
Smith was a real-life badass! Look him up....real tough guy.
I was 10years old when RED DAWN came out, and to this day is still one of my favorite movies.
Great movie thanks for covering it, Minty you are awesome
John Milius is a genius and the cast was stellar. Actor William Smith's accomplishments in life make you feel so small. I would be intimidated too!
One of my top fav 80s flicks. WOLVERINES!!!
Yes mark. Yes mark. Thank you. I love red dawn. Have it on DVD. One of the few films I ever ordered online and that fifteen years ago.
A classic. A favorite that still makes me weep at the end.
Is this the movie where they cut fingers to be blood brothers?
Favorite movie of all time, influenced my first truck, a 77 Chevrolet.
My sister-in-law's Dad was the principal of the school at the start of the movie when they filmed it there. My brother has bene to Las Vegas, NM several times for her family and I got there one evening on a long sightseeing trip with my wife. They still have a "Calumet CO" mural on a building there. I have often wondered about the 'M1' tank in that winter fight scene, as it looks awfully good but clearly wouldn't be the real thing
"You're more than soldiers today! You're Wolverines!" Colonel Hoffman.
I thought for sure after the credits you were gonna come back on and yell out wolverines.
Same here!
I was waiting for it!
A real man would've ;).
Paratroopers getting stuck in trees isn't a rare occurrence to be 100% honest.
In Grand Theft Auto 5, a radio advert for the gun store Ammunation says it does screening of this movie and calls it a documentary.
This is one of my FAVORITE movies
This film is a 80s cult classic. Great cast, including Patrick Swayze *(RIP)* and the late great Powers Boothe *(RIP).*
Great vid. Please do *First Blood,* the only one without Rambo in the title! 👍
And Harry Dean Stanton, his last movie "Lucky" has got to be one of the greatest about the inevitably of one's own death.
He already did
I guess he might of took it down.
My first PG13 movie. My grandfather and I went to see it, he caught so much hell. The part that hit my young mind the hardest was the Cuban Colonel writing to his wife and kids.
It was *the* first PG13 movie LOL
Harry Dean Stanton has never been in a bad movie. Give him his props!